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Anu Ansari ... Laxmi
Shrey Bawa ... Rohan
Ahsaas Channa ... Raksha
Kenny Desai ... Anshuman
Lillete Dubey ... Dr. seema walke
Zakir Hussain ... Manja
Kishore Kadam ... Devappa
Bharat Kaul ... Mandar
Ashwini Khalsekar ... Madhu
Amruta Khanvilkar ... Arati
K.K. Raina ... Dr. pandey
Javed Rizvi ... Mani
Shankar Sachdev ... Shyam
Jyoti Subhash ... Amma
Sudeep ... Rajiv
Ganesh Yadav ... Vinay
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§ Glorified Zee Horror Show §, 1 December 2008
Author: Avinash Patalay from Middle Earth

There seems to be only two genres which are penchant to RGV, underworld and horror. While he redeems himself with the former for every mistake he commits in the latter.

§ Sudeep:: The new protégé'. Quite promising – bears shades of Manoj Bajpai.

§ Amruta Khanvilkar:: From Zee Cinestars Ki Khoj to RGV camp, she has come a long way.

§ Ashish Channa:: The kids are watching too much horror programs and it clearly shows.

§ Ashwini Kalsekar:: Scary portrayal but at times over the top (and a bit amusing in few scenes!). Same for the actor who played her husband.

§ The lady who played the Mother's part was quite natural .

§ Lillette Dubey & KK Raina:: Characterization was a bit skewed, inadequately fleshed out.

§ Zakir Hussain:: The star performer and carries his role quite effectively.

Background score is not too loud – thankfully.

The movie bears RGV stamp all over… and the weird camera angles come as a part of the package.

Raat, Bhoot, Darling, Vaastushastra & the Darna series - reminds me of the story of the spider who refuses to give up. RGV is enamoured by Alfred Hitchcock/ Stanley Kubrick who merely used narration and background score as tools to play with the minds of the audience and create a horror sans blood and gore . Phoonk is yet another attempt to set a similar benchmark on the home ground.

What are you waiting for? Bring on Shabri too..... we have the gut to digest that as well.

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